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Suppose that you have A-3-K-K and the flop is K-4-4. You have flopped kings full of fours. Normally, when you flop the top full house you would generally want to play it fast (bet and raise every possible time) to prevent someone from hitting the “backdoor” low, catching two perfect cards on fourth street and the river, such as 6-7. When this happens you end up giving up half of the pot unnecessarily.
In the case of A-3-K-K, however, you have a strong low hand as well as the top full house. If you slow-play it, someone who stays in may hit a card that keeps him in the pot, not knowing that he has no hope of winning the low side (he is drawing dead). On the other hand, if an opponent has exactly one four in his hand, then your playing the hand fast may prove to be best, because with trips he might be willing to put in several bets on the flop but only a few on the turn. In that case you would be costing yourself money by slow-playing. But given that you really cost yourself money only when your opponent has exactly a four, slow-playing the hand has to be considered the preferred choice, so as to squeeze more money out of a great situation. bet
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While you're playing the premium hands (top ten) and strong hands (11-18), you'll hit great flops and terrible flops and somewhere-in-between flops. First, let's take a look at a bunch of examples of what to do with good to great flops. Second, we'll look at what you should do with the marginal to terrible flops.
Great Flops
When you have the luxury of a great flop, your only decision is whether or not you should ram and jam the flop (put in as many raises as you can) or slow-play the flop (let other players into the pot by acting weak and therefore capturing additional money from many different players).
Suppose you have 0-[94249 and the floP is L94949-In this situation you have flopped the best possible low, and it is uncounterfeitable, meaning that it cannot lose the low pot no matter which other low cards come up on the next two board cards. Even if the last two cards pair the ace, deuce, or three, you will still make the best possible low by using your backup cards. You have also flopped a powerful wrap straight draw (4-5 from the board wrapped with an A, 2, 3, or 6 on one of the next two cards will make you a straight), the ace-high flush draw, and a pair of eights! Wow, what a flop for your hand! Now what do you do? Do you start betting, raising, and reraising right now, or do you just call to lure in your opponents?
The argument for raising now is that you want to drive out high hands like two pair or trips so that your pair of eights might win the high side of the pot while your A-2 wins the low half. The much stronger argument here is for just calling with this hand on the flop. After all, you have the low half of the pot "locked up" unless someone else also has A-2, in which case you would get one-quarter of the whole pot (one-half of the low half; sometimes the low can even be split into three, in which case your take would amount to one-sixth of the pot). And you have a great chance to win the high side if a diamond (flush) or an ace, deuce, three, or six comes up to make you a straight. My vote is that you slow-play this hand on the flop and try to keep as many players in the pot as possible. Someone with a worse flush draw will call one bet as well, which is great for you if the flush does come.
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